AC Milan are interested in Fulham's on-loan Morocco midfielder Adel Taarabt, according to Cottagers boss Rene Meulensteen.

A Russian diplomat and his wife have been stabbed in Sudan by a man anguished over the death of his brother in Central African Republic, police say.

The United Nations believes at least 10,000 troops are needed in any force sent to end unrest in Central African Republic, France's UN envoy says.

A former bodyguard to Rwanda's president refuses to be tried for terrorism, as a senior UN official criticises Rwanda's human rights record.

Kenya-based BBC broadcast journalist Anne Waithera has died, aged 39, in a Nairobi hospital after a two-year battle against cancer.

A senior cleric tells the BBC how suspected Islamist militants "slaughtered" at least 30 churchgoers in north-eastern Nigeria on Sunday.

Cardiff and Nigeria's Peter Odemwingie joins Stoke in a swap deal that takes striker Kenwyne Jones the other way.

New Chelsea signing Egypt's Mohamed Salah scoops another best player of the year award in Switzerland.

A Chinese ivory smuggler is ordered to pay a record fine or spend seven years in jail, under tough new Kenyan anti-poaching laws.

Prominent South African anti-apartheid activist Mamphela Ramphele is to be the presidential candidate of the opposition Democratic Alliance.

Egypt's former Islamist President Mohammed Morsi arrives at a Cairo court to go on trial over his escape from prison in 2011, state media say.

New rights are enshrined in Tunisia's constitution